Personal Matter

Personal Matter

Übersetzer: Nathan, John
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Personal Matter

Oe's most important novel, A Personal Matter, has been called by The New York Times "close to a perfect novel." In A Personal Matter, Oe has chosen a difficult, complex though universal subject: how does one face and react to the birth of an abnormal child? Bird, the protagonist, is a young man of 27 with antisocial tendencies who more than once in his life, when confronted with a critical problem, has "cast himself adrift on a sea of whisky like a besotted Robinson Crusoe." But he has never faced a crisis as personal or grave as the prospect of life imprisonment in the cage of his newborn infant-monster. Should he keep it? Dare he kill it? Before he makes his final decision, Bird's entire past seems to rise up before him, revealing itself to be a nightmare of self-deceit. The relentless honesty with which Oe portrays his hero -- or antihero -- makes Bird one of the most unforgettable characters in recent fiction.

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  • EAN: 9780802150615
  • Best.Nr.: 20761334
Kenzaburo Oe, geboren 1935 auf der Insel Shikoku, Romanistik-Studium an der Tokyo University. Abschluß mit einer Arbeit über Sartre, schrieb Essays, Geschichten und Romane. Mit 23 Jahren erhielt Oe den renommierten Akutagawa-Preis, es folgten zahlreiche weitere Auszeichungen - darunter 1994 der Nobelpreis für Literatur. Oe lebt in Tokyo.